Saturday, March 26, 2011

Do you know any individuals who grew up in a Christian churchand then walked away when they got older? Often pastors and parents and brothers and sistersare concerned about them and their spirituality--and often they should be. But sometimes those individuals' rejectionof church and the Christian faith they were presented withas the only possible interpretation of what it means to follow Jesusmay in fact be a sign of spiritual health. They may be resisting behaviors, interpretations, and attitudesthat should be rejected. Perhaps they simply came to a pointwhere they refused to accept the very sorts of things that Jesus would refuse to accept.